Sociology: Recent submissions
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Understanding Ignorance: The Surprising Impact of What We Don’t Know
(MIT Press, 2017)An exploration of what we can know about what we don't know: why ignorance is more than simply a lack of knowledge. Ignorance is trending. Politicians boast, "I'm not a scientist." Angry citizens object to a proposed state ... -
The Subject’s Matter: Self-Consciousness and the Body
(MIT Press, 2017)An interdisciplinary and comprehensive treatment of bodily self-consciousness, considering representation of the body, the sense of bodily ownership, and representation of the self. The body may be the object we know the ... -
Reordering Life: Knowledge and Control in the Genomics Revolution
(MIT Press, 2017)The rise of genomics engendered intense struggle over the control of knowledge. In Reordering Life, Stephen Hilgartner examines the "genomics revolution" and develops a novel approach to studying the dynamics of change in ... -
Extraordinary Science and Psychiatry: Responses to the Crisis in Mental Health Research
(MIT Press, 2017)Psychiatry and mental health research is in crisis, with tensions between psychiatry's clinical and research aims and controversies over diagnosis, treatment, and scientific constructs for studying mental disorders. At the ... -
The Chinese Typewriter: A History
(MIT Press, 2017)Chinese writing is character based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Through the years, the Chinese written language encountered presumed alphabetic universalism in the form of Morse Code, ... -
How Reform Worked in China: The Transition from Plan to Market
(MIT Press, 2017)A noted Chinese economist examines the mechanisms behind China's economic reforms, arguing that universal principles and specific implementations are equally important. As China has transformed itself from a centrally ... -
Innovating: A Doer’s Manifesto for Starting from a Hunch, Prototyping Problems, Scaling Up, and Learning to Be Productively Wrong
(MIT Press, 2017)Innovating is for doers: you don't need to wait for an earth-shattering idea, but can build one with a hunch and scale it up to impact. Innovation is the subject of countless books and courses, but there's very little out ... -
Language in Our Brain: The Origins of a Uniquely Human Capacity
(MIT Press, 2017)Language makes us human. It is an intrinsic part of us, although we seldom think about it. Language is also an extremely complex entity with subcomponents responsible for its phonological, syntactic, and semantic aspects. ... -
Agreement Beyond Phi
(MIT Press, 2017)Much attention in theoretical linguistics in the generative and Minimalist traditions is concerned with issues directly or indirectly related to movement. The EPP (extended projection principle), introduced by Chomsky in ... -
Five Constraints on Predicting Behavior
(MIT Press, 2017)Scientists were unable to study the relation of brain to mind until the invention of technologies that measured the brain activity accompanying psychological processes. Yet even with these new tools, conclusions are tentative ... -
Evolving Enactivism: Basic Minds Meet Content
(MIT Press, 2017)Evolving Enactivism argues that cognitive phenomena -- perceiving, imagining, remembering -- can be best explained in terms of an interface between contentless and content-involving forms of cognition. Building on their ... -
Efficient Cognition: The Evolution of Representational Decision Making
(MIT Press, 2018)An argument that representational decision making is more cognitively efficient, allowing an organism to adjust more easily to changes in the environment. Many organisms (including humans) make decisions by relying on ... -
USMLE Step 2 CK , Second Edition
(McGraw-Hill Education, 2010)Deja Review: USMLE Step 2 CK boils down your coursework to just the critical concepts you ned to know for exam success. This unbeatable guide features a quick-read, two-column "flashcard" QandA format--specifically designed ... -
Elementary Number Theory
(McGraw-Hill Education, 2010)Elementary Number Theory, Seventh Edition, is written for the one-semester undergraduate number theory course taken by math majors, secondary education majors, and computer science students. This contemporary text provides ... -
Doing Your Research Project
(McGraw-Hill Education, 2010)Step-by-step advice on completing an outstanding research project. Research can be daunting, particularly for first-timers, but this indispensable book provides everything you need to know to prepare for research, draft ... -
How to research
(McGraw-Hill Education, 2010)Includes chapters on planning and carrying out small-scale research projects, this practical guide takes the reader step-by-step through the research process, from writing proposals to completion of the project. As well ... -
The Excellence of Play
(McGraw-Hill Education, 2010)Play as a successful learning and teaching experience remains key to early education. The new edition of this popular book continues to clearly illustrate key play theories in practice. It has been comprehensively revised ... -
Fundamental Accounting Principles, 20th Edition
(McGraw-Hill Education, 2010)With 55 years of success in the principles of accounting market, Fundamental Accounting Principles, 20th edition by Wild, Shaw and Chiappetta has endured and adapted to changes in accounting, technology, and student learning ... -
College Algebra with Trigonometry, (9th Edition)
(McGraw-Hill Education, 2010)Barnett, Ziegler, Byleen, and Sobecki's "College Algebra with Trigonometry" text is designed to be user friendly and to maximize student comprehension by emphasizing computational skills, ideas, and problem solving as ... -
Fundamentals of Cost Accounting, 3rd Edition
(McGraw-Hill Education, 2010)A direct, realistic, and efficient way to learn cost accounting. Fundamentals is short (approximately 700 pages) making it easy to cover in one semester. The authors have kept the text concise by focusing on the key concepts ...
